Best route to chase these in?

[Manty]

There is a cooker hood and 2.5kw single oven being installed in the middle of the attached picture.

The most economical way to chase the wiring in for them I've drawn on in green, but is this the right way?

I'm going to convert the socket into a double box for FCU's for the oven and hood.

The floor is solid, the wiring for the original socket is fed over the ceiling behind dot and dab plasterboard. The builder left a loop on one of the ring cables - the intention was for it to feed an FCU inside a cupboard, but "The Mrs" has gone for a chimney style hood now, so chasing is now required.

The alternative for the hood I thought would be to feed/chase as back up following the ring cable, then chase it left near the ceiling. For the oven I would have chased down to below worktop depth and then across to behind the oven.

Any ideas?

btw, converting that loop into an FCU and chasing from that would be 'hideous' as the lady put it.

 

[plugwash]

your plan of replacing the double socket with a dual box for a pair of FCUs is perfectly reasonable.

however your current route is not within the safe zones, instaead you should take the cable horizontally into the corner of the room, use the safe zone in the corner to go up/down to the level you wan't and then go horizontaly to the destination.

 

[Manty]

Thanks plugwash. Just to clarify, this is acceptable so long as I stick to within 150mm of the zone?....

 

[RF Lighting]

That looks fine to me.

Are you sure you want to get rid of the socket altogether?
Why not leave the socket and and the FCUs aswell. You can't have too many sockets in a kitchen.

 

[Steve]

These people never heard of 1st fix and 2nd fix? I'd be seriously ****ed off is i had to chase that (newly plastered by the looks of it) nice wall.

 

[Manty]

That looks fine to me.

Are you sure you want to get rid of the socket altogether?
Why not leave the socket and and the FCUs aswell. You can't have too many sockets in a kitchen.

I might do that, pull the rest of the slack down and extend to accomodate the FCU's, but TBH sockets aren't really required in that location.

A hob is going on the worktop in the middle (seperate supply fed from the left which you can't see in these pics).

 

[Manty]

These people never heard of 1st fix and 2nd fix? I'd be seriously p****d off is i had to chase that (newly plastered by the looks of it) nice wall.

Not seriously, just mildly. Plans had changed after the wall had been skimmed, which is bloody typical.

Thanks for the input chaps.